Following constructive criticism received by our followers, Yes For Unity will attempt to address the imbalance on the panels for our future public talks & debates. Our well received and supported events play an important role within the Irish Unity campaign, and it is important that the entire Irish Unity community and society in general...
The recent attempt by an unelected member of the House of Lords to pass through a ‘Referendums Criteria Bill”, that will gerrymander any future referenda must serve as a strong reminder to all that the unstated Border Poll voting threshold for a referendum on Irish Unity needs addressed now. While this bill in its current...
Yes For Unity – Addressing contradictions in the Border Poll position The Good Friday Agreement heralded a new era in the same old pattern of the decade’s long denial of sovereignty to Ireland by Britain. 1998 saw the enforced normalisation of British occupation upon working class communities in the North and the slow managed splintering...
A recent poll released last week by Lucid Talk has revealed ever increasing support for Irish Unity. The polling took place between the 27th & 30th November 2019 and included a panel of 2,422 respondents. The poll revealed that; -71% of unionists are voting based on protecting the union -73% of nationalists are voting based on the...
While welcoming some aspects of the recent open letter released by the Civic Nationalist group 'Ireland’s Future' as a worthy breakthrough in opening up and publicising the debate surrounding Irish Unity; as Left wing Republicans Yes For Unity have no option but to be highly critical of its content. YesForUnity was established to ensure that...
The constitutional future of Ireland is now the hot topic within both local and National politics. The Irish Unity debate is growing by day and with it, the inevitable expansion of the wider Irish Unity campaign. Recent events have shown that political Unionism is in a serious state of decline and crisis. Its chaotic...
On the 24th November, the Irish Unity community will be coming together in Lifford/Strabane for the first time in a non-party political, anti-sectarian mobilisation for Irish Unity, a turning point for the entire Irish Unity campaign. Over the past 3 years, ‘Yes For Unity’, the socialist broad front campaign for Irish Unity have travelled across...
Last week, the Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar made unusual comments stating his support and long term aspiration of seeing a United Ireland in his lifetime. While to us, the Irish Unity community, such statements can only be welcomed as it gives our political & democratic demands long term substance by putting the Irish Unity campaign...
In 2017, A Yes For Unity contingent visited Catalunya during the Independence referendum campaign as part of our International outreach, as a learning exercise to gather ideas on how lessons from the Catalonia independence campaign could be applied to the campaign for Irish Unity. YesForUnity International Outreach The most striking lesson we learnt from the experience...
Those from the Irish Unity Community currently tripping over themselves to be pro-EU should be cautious. In a no deal Brexit scenario it will be Dublin, forced by Brussels, erecting the customs infrastructure in order to protect the EU single market. Why would the British Government want to build a new customs' infastructure? In such a...
